Scholarship, Citations and Salaries: Economic Rewards in Economics

While substantial attention has been paid to the determinants of academics' earnings [5; 7; 8; 14; 15], this literature has by implication suggested that the mere fact of having spent more time in the profession, and the publication of more scholarly articles and books, are the major determinants of salary differences. Our purpose here is to introduce a new determinant-the quality of one's scholarly research, measured by the frequency of...